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As He Likes It

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In the following list of books Professor William Lyon Phelps, '87, has compiled a series of suggestions for summer reading. Included in this number are twenty-three novels, several books of poetry and drama, and twenty-six biographies. There are also listed publications on sport, religion, general topics on the subject of books themselves, as well as numerous travel and social history works.

Professor Phelps' vacation reading list is as follows:

(Ed Note--Due to limitations of space only Professor Phelps' choice of novels, poems and dramas are re-printed.)

Novels--The Gypsy, W. B. Trites. All for Nothing, J. D. Beresford. Deluge, Fowler Wright. Wintersmoon, Hugh Walpole, Claire Ambler, Booth Tarkington, Giants in the Earth, O. E. Rolvaag. Etched in Moonlight, James Stephens, Red Rust, Cornelia J. Cannon, Julius--"A Gentleman With a Duster" Tinker's Leave, Maurice Baring. Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather. Gallions Reach, H. M. Tomlinson. The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder. Carry on, Jeeves, P. G. Wodehouse. Leave It to Psmith, P. G. Wodehouse. No Other Tiger, A. E. W. Mason. The Crook's Shadow, J. Jefferson Farjeon. The Portrait Invisible, Joseph Gollomb. 2 L. O., Walter S. Masterman. The Shot on the Downs, Victor L. Whitechurch. Tracks in the Snow, Lord Charnwood. The Old Dark House, J. B. Priestly. The Greene Murder Case, S. S. Van Dine.

Poetry--Tristram, Wm. Arlington Robinson. Guinea Fowl and Other Poultry, Leonard Bacon. The Bright Doom, John Hall Wheelock.

Drama Works of Eugene O'Neill, White Wings, Philip Barry. Behold the Bridegroom, George Kelly. But Is It Art? Perey Hammond (Dramatic Criticism). Going to Pieces, Alexander Woolcott (Dramatic Criticism). The Yale News.

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